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- COVES* NCBBRT FRANCIS KENNEDY, ATTORNEY, CRZXXHAL DIVISION. 
^jboRBSfii ONE TVOTVO S0WD02N WH E W , BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS r kfiV 

November twenty, ianm mm rm, boston, Massachusetts* /.-.*• 

VERIFY. EDUCATION! HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., SKFZEH* 

BB| 70RTT SIX TO FEBRUARY, FORTY EIGHT, BECXIVED B* A, DEGREE) 

BATES COLLEGE, LBVISTOR, MAINE, NOVEMBER | FORTY FO® TO JUKE, FOBS 

FIVE. ASCERTAIN IF ADMITTED TO BAB. EMPLOYMENT! UNEMPLOYED, AT 

PRESENT TIME. VERIFY ACTIVITIES, RELATIVES IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE 

. JCBN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, ORE TWO TWO BOWDOXN ST*. BOSTON. MASS*. 

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BROTHER, FEDERAL GOVT^ 7 REFERENCES I JOBS J* FORD, TWO SIX NAUGHT 

- TREMOR ST.| BARTHOLOJCV A. BRICXIZY, ONE FEDERAL ST RE ET \ BOR* 
WILLIAM I* MCCARTHY, FEDERAL DIET* COURT, FEDERAL BLDO., ALL BOSTQ! 
MASSACHUSETTS* 

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EDUCATION! VIRGINIA LAV SCHOOL, CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va'*, SEPTEMBER, 

FORTY EIGHT TO JOSE, FIFTY OS, RECEIVED LL*B* DEGREE* ASCERTAIN 
• IF ADMITTED TO BAR, • •* 


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FBI RICHMOND 9-15-51 ' ‘ Tiae " -T 

SAC NORFOLK URGENT 

COVES. ROBERT FRAHCIS KENNEDY, ATTORNEY, CRIMINAL DIVISION. 4 

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SUTKL SEPTEMBER TWENTY. SURKP SEPTEMBER TWENTXTVO. APPLICANT 
RESIDES BOSTON, MASS* BORN NOVEMBER TWENTY TWENTTFIVE, BOSTON. 
ATTENDED HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OP VIRGINIA LAV 
SCHOOL. INDICES RICHMOND REFLECT ONI, NORFOLK, CHECKED 
APPLICANT -S NAME THROUGH RICHMOND INDICES JANUARY FIFTYONE. 

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1BFABTMEKTAL APPLICANT 
Attorney, Grinina! Division 


SYNOPSIS OP PACTS: 


. REC'D_ 
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File* of Hip another Oops rat at agency, 
reflect background investigation conducted 
2/51 based on' applicant** application for 
i comission In USSR as laul Intelligence 
— • Specialist. Report favorable and nothing 
r -3 derogatory nentioned therein. 


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REJTREHCE: 


Rlchnond teletype to lorfolk dated Seotehber 15. 1951. 


IS TAILS: 


AT RORFQLK, VIRGHIA: 


Files of •“Other Oovernnent 

agency which conducts security investigations, reflected background investiga- 
tion was conducted in February, 1951, based on applicant's application for 
a comiss Ion in the DERR as a Kaval Intelligence Specialist. The report 
reflected that faculty nenbers at the University of Virginia renarked favorably 
concerning applicant and his educational background was verified at that school. 
Nothing derogatory was nentioned in applicant's file. 


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X ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY, DAPLI, jixiwwti, wuniimi. 

.jafiK ATTENDED U. OF FA. . DEPARTMENT OF LAW, CHARLOTTESVILLE, FA*, 
•rtTrmrD cirrmuTW NTNTTEFN FORTYEIGHT TO JUNE ELEVENTH NINETEEN 

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FIFTY ONE WHEN GRADUATED AND AWARDED LLB DEGREE* RANKED 
FIFTY SIXTH IN CLASS OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR HAVING EARNED 
SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE GRADES* JMHBK FORMER PROFESSORS AND 
ACQUAINTANCES RECOMMEND AS TO CHARACTER, REPUTATION AND LOYALTY 
AND DESCRIBE AS INTELLIGENT AND MATURE, POSSESSES AVERAGE KNOWLEDGE 
OF LAW, EXCELLENT J0HPMRKC POISE AND SELF CONFIDENT* RECOMMEND 

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REBUTEL SEPT. FOURTEEN LAST. RECORDS, BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS* 
STATE HOUSE* BOSTON* MASS.* AND BOSTON CITY HALL* DO NOT REFLECT 
ANY ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY BORN IN BOSTON OR MASSACHUSETTS FROM 
NINETEEN TWENTY TO NINETEEN THIRTY. ATTENDED BATES COLLEGE, 
LEWISTON, MAINE* NOV., FORTYFOUR, TO FEB., FORTYFIVE, UNDER ARMY 
V TWELVE PROGRAM. RECORD FAVORABLE* TRANSFERRED IN GOOD STANDING 
TO HARVARD COLLEGE. NO ONE AT BATES COLLEGE RECALLED APPLICANT. 


BATES COLLEGE RECORDS SHOW APPLICANT BORN NOV* TWENTY* NINETEEN 
TWENTYFIVE AT BOSTON* MASS. RECORD ON APPLICANT AT HARVARD UNIV.* 
CAMBRIDGE* MASS.* WHERE HE ATTENDED SEPT.* FORTYSIK TO FEB.* 
FORTYEIGHT* RECEIVING BA DEGREE* FAVORABLE. NO RECORD OF ADMISSION 
TO THE BAR* MASSACHUSETTS CLERK-S OFFICE* SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF 
mSS.#* SHOWS ROBERT F. KENNEDY APPLIED FOR ADMISSION TO THE MASS. 
jPAR JULY NINETEEN* FIFTYONE. APPLICANT PRESENTLY BEING EXAMINED 


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JESSE C. HALL, JR. Jchjpb 


DEPARTMENTAL APPLICANT, 
ATTORNEY, CRIMINAL DIVISION 


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Applicant attended U. of Va., Dept, of 
Law, Charlottesville, Va., 9/16/48 to 
6/11/51 when graduated and awarded LL.B 
degree. He ranked 56th In a claes of 
124 , having earned slightly above average 
grades. Fonts r professors and acquain- 
tances re coma end as to character, reputa- 
q tlon and loyalty and describe as Intelligent 
and mature, possesses average knowledge of 
C5* law, excellent poise and self confident. 

1? They r e c onoa end for position sought. No 
L. criminal record and credit rating satis- 
factory at Charlottesville, Va. No record 
of applicant having taken Va. Bar exam. 

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REFERENCE: Bureau teletype dated 9-14-51* 


DETAILS: 

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Registrar's Office, 
i&epzpjui&nt of Law, University of Virginia, advised her 
Iji&ebrdk reflect the applicant was born November 20, 1925, 
at Boston, Massachusetts. He entered the Department of 
Law on September 16, 1946* attending until June 11, 1951# 
at which time he was graduated and conferred the LL.B. Degree. 
According to the record he earned a scholastic average of . 



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_ . - - - he applicant as an intelligent and 

mature young man whom they believed to possess excellent 
po*se, a sense of s elf-confidence and average technical 
knowledge of the law as well as excellent common sense. 
They all recommended him for the position sought. 

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adviaed his «WPd^ak^^5r!55nce to the applicant. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Bar State 

?he r Bar r S*l f ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY a,. r having 
Bar in tKl? ru." 8 been adnltted t0 «» Virginia 


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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 


BUREAU 


77-37011 


WASHINGTON, D. C. 1 9/Sl/'51 9/17,19,20/51 GEORGE P.^AITRUM, JR. GPD: 



tfiOBERT 


FRANCIS EENNEDT 


DEPARTMENTAL APPLICANT 
Attorney, Criminal Division 


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CSC and HCUA negative re applicant. Nothing 
derogatory ONI. Applicant *s brother veri- 
fied as Congressman. Credit and criminal 
negative re brother* 






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REFERENCES: Bureau file 77-51337* 

Bureau teletype dated September 14> 1951* 

DETAILS: AT WASHINGTON. D. C. 

Special Employee EDMUND J. EIDEN has advised there is 
no record of the applicant in the files of the Investigations 
Division, Civil Service Commission* 

Special Employee FRED T. GHEEN has advised that the files 
of the House Committee on Un-American Activities were checked 
against the name of the applicant with negative results* 

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Special Employee ROBERT S. MUGAVIN advised that the files 
of the Office of Naval Intelligence reflect a request for a back- 
ground investigation of the applicant was made in June, 1949, in 
connection with his application for a commission. Reports of the 
Sixth Naval District at Miami, Florida, and the Fifth Naval District 
at Norfolk, Virginia, were received and disclosed no derogatory 
information concerning the applicant* 



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Information in the Congressional Directory reflects 
J'fchat the applicant 1 s brother, JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, has been 
Cra member of the United States House of Representatives since his 
.^‘•lection November 5# 1946, from the Eleventh District of 

. -Massachusetts* 

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Special Employee VALTER JAMES TOLSON advised that the 
files of the District of Columbia Credit Bureau were negative 
concerning the name of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY* 

Special Employee NICHOLAS R. MANFREDA advised that 
the files of the Metropolitan Police Department. Washington, 

D* C. , were negative concerning the name of JOHN FITZGERALD 
KENNEDY. 


The Bureau has advised that a search of the Central 
Files of the FBI has been made and no Information of a derogatory 
nature concerning loyalty which could be identified with the 
applicant was found* 



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ROBERT FRANCIS ONMOT, ATTOKNEI, CRIMINAL DIVISION. munrn t» $ 
8EP7QIBEB FOURTEEN, NINETEEN HU1DRSD FIFTT OK. BOSS MUVEHBBR JWKNTT, 
MIMBT£EN HOTDRBD TWENTT FIVE, boston, mass. SERVED USB, MARCH, * 
MDfcTSEH HUNDRED FORIT FOUR TO JUNE, BINE TEEN HUNDRED PQSTT SIX, MSI, 
WO FOUR EIGHT DASH SEVEN SEVER SASH TWO SEVEN. BBOORDS NWC, OAHTFN 
CITT, IT, REFLECT KV TRSCOR D CHARGED OUT JULT TWENTT, RUffiTEBN 
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Office Memorandum • united states government 


DIRECTOR, FBI 


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BOSTON 


ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY 
DAPLI 

Attorney, Criminal Division 



9/21/51 


There mre being forwarded herewith three copies of the 
Report of SA LOUIS E. BEIGBEDER dated 9/21/51 in the 
above-eaptioned ease. 



By reason of the apparent lack of pertinence of this 
incident to the investigation, it has not been included 
in the investigative report on the Applicant. 


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ROBERT PRAHCIS KENNEDY 


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DEPARTMENTAL APPLICANT 
Attorney, Criminal Diviaii 


BVNonw or r acts: 







Records, Bureau of Vital Statistics, State ' ‘ 
House, Boston, Mass., and City Ball, Boston, 
Mass., contained no reference to ROBERT 
FRANCIS KENNEDY 1 s having been born In Boston 
or Massachusetts from 1920 to 1930. Appli- 
cant attended Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 
November, 1944 to June, 1945 under Navy V-12 
Program. Transferred in good standing to 
Harvard University. Records Bates College . 
show Applicant born Boston, Maes., November 20, 
1925. Applicant entered Harvard College in 
spring of 1944 under Navy V-12 Program until 
November, 1944 *nd returned in summer term 
of 1945 until January 31, 1946. Applicant . 
returned in the fall of 1946 and was awarded 
an A.B. Degree March 1, 1948 in the field 
of Government. Applicant's academic record 
was favorable and Applicant recommended by 
University officials. References recommended 
Applicant highly. Neighborhood investigation 
indicates Applicant a person of good character, 
well thought of, good reputation and a loyal 
American. Records, Supreme Judicial Court 
of Massachusetts, indicate Applicant presently 
under consideration for admission to the 
Massachusetts Bar. Credit record on Applicant 
and family favorable. No criminal record. 

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Investigation at Harvard University was conducted 'by SA ... 
RICHARD V. ALLEH; at Lewiston, Maine, by SA JOHN T. PASS; 
neighborhood investigation was conducted by SA WILLIAM A. 
TANNER; interview of references, by SA DAVID A. LYNCH. , 



BIRTH 


The records of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, State House, 
Boston, Massachusetts, contained no reference to ROBERT 
FRANCIS KENNEDY'S having been^born in Massachusetts from t - 
the years 1920 to 1930.. j\ ' *. .*» 

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The records at Boston City Hall for the years 1920 to 1930 
eontained no reference to ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY'S having 
been born at Boston. 


EDUCATION 



College in the spring of 191*4* member of the Navy V-12 ‘ y* 
Program. The Applicant attended until November, 1944* At 
which time he was transferred to Bates College in Lewiston, 

Maine. The Applicant returned to Harvard College in Decem- 
ber of 1945 And remained until January 31* 1946, at which 
time he was transferred to sea duty. The Applicant returned 
as a civilian in the fall of 1946 And was awarded an A.B. 

Degree March 1, 1946 in the field of Government. . 

! Harvard College, reviewed 

Ehe Applicant's personal folder and stated the Applicant's'^ y ", 
record was clear. He stated further the records indicated *y 
the Applicant was the son of the Honorable JOSEPH PATRICK .. ' > 
KENNEDY, former United States Ambassador to the Court of 
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carvara university, stated be knew the * 
ppucant as a resident of Vlnthrop Bouae. Be stated the " ‘ 
rec°rd^^|lnthrop Bouse are clear relating to the Awoll- 
*5°* * ■■■■V ■ d the Applicant .associated with persons 
of normal American background. Be sUted he had complete • 5 
confidence in the Applicant's loyalty to the United States 
and said he knew nothing In derogation of the Applicant's 
character. 


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November, 1944 

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cusi,on, nassacnusetts, stated he has known 
e Applicant since birth and recoonended him hi ghly for a 
position with the Government* He stated the Applicant and 
hla family have a good reputation and that their loyalty to 
the United States Is beyond question. Be said the Appli- 
cant Is Intelligent and trustworthy. .; 


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reservation for a position of trust with the Go Vermont of 
the United States and that he based this reoonnendaticm on 
all phases of the Applicant's character. Be stated he had 
complete confidence In the Applicant's loyalty to the fora 
of government of the United States and that the Applicant 
at all times had exhibited himself to be a person of good • 
moral character and reputation. 


Boston, Massachusetts, 

stated he has known the Applicant since birth and that. In 
observing the Applicant's development, he could say conclusively 
that the Applicant is a person of sound moral character and 
unquestionable loyalty to the United States and of good repu- 
tation and associates. He recotanended the Applicant for a 
position of trust with the Government of the United States. * 


NEIGHBORHOOD 




122 Bowdoln 

oston, Massachusetts, stated the Applicant has 
resided at this address for approximately one and one-half 
years. He stated the Applicant appears to be a person of 
good character and reputation and that he knew of no state- 
ment or activity engaged In by the Applicant which would 


indicate that he was other than loyal to the United States. 

122 Bowdoln 

os ton, Massachusetts, who have known the Applicant 
for approximately one and one-half years, stated the Appli- 
cant appears to be of good character, loyalty and reputation. 


CREDIT AND CRIMINAL 


ssachusetts, contained records which indicated 
the Applicant and his family had a favorable credit rating. 


The records o 
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The records of 

central repositor^rH^^^^SWWW®^ Augusta, Maine, a 

State of Maine, contained ao iSi?!-. *co©rds In the 

Applicant. * contained no Infomatlon pertaining to the 


So record for the Applicant 

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'^C&Zb MlSCELLAWRnng 


Siq>ratte Judicial 

Massachusetts, stated thf^SiJ ™^ y rt C ? Ur i House ' Boston, 
adnlsslon to the Bar of Massachusetts? d ° f th ® Appllcan V« 

Sjal^to^h^B^ ln°j£lT li l95i 2,l 6 ? h a petltlon for ad- 
cants are presently beim/eaiifi the successful appll- 
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Birth ehaeks at the State House and City Hall, Boston, 
were made by SE NORMAN R. JOHNSON; oredit and criminal 
checks at Boston were made by SE FRANCIS L. MANNIX. 







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Director, FBI 

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( ) lb® deadline in this case has passed and the Bureau has not 
received a report, Tou are Instructed to lamediately subcult 
a report. In the event a report has been submitted, you 
should sake a notation o f the date on which it was submitted 
on this letter and return it to the Bureau. 

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BOBERT F5JWCIS KEJTfHJI 
DSPIRTMEHTAL APPUCAFT 
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With reference to pour aeaorandum dated Septaabar 12, 1951# requeeting 
that an Lmrartlgatlon be conducted concerning lobert Franc la Kennedy, there are 
attached ooplea of the follaadog reporte. 

Beport of Special Agent lord. a H, Beigbeder, dated September tl> 1951# 
at Boeton, Massachusetts. 

Beport of Bpeciel Agent George f. Pixtrn, Jr., dated Septaabar 21, 1951# 
at Washington, D. C. 

Beport of Special Agent Jerry T* Bette, Jr., dated Septoaber 18 , 1951# 
at Borfolk, Virginia. 

Beport of Ppedal Agent Jesse C. Ball, Jr., dated September 20, 1951# at 
Blchnond, Virginia. 

It has been determined that the Mary ferries record of Kennedy la presently 
an route from Few York to Washington, D. C. Aa aoon as it can be located and 
reviewed you will be furnished a copy of the report reflecting this Information, 




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ROBStT FRANCIS KBKKEDT 
Departmental Applicant 
Attorney, Criminal Division 


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Re New York teletype dated September 22, 1951* 

fiiclosed herewith ie the report of SA GEORGE P. BAXTRUM, JR., 
dated October 31, 1951, captioned as above. 



Upon receipt of ret el setting forth information tha^th^aDpli- 
cant's Navy record was charged out from NRMC, Garden City to a 

Naval intelligence officer on liaison with the Bureau of Navt^rersonnel 
at Washington, D. C. , a search was made for the record with negative re- 
sults. 


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A stop was placed in the files requesting FBI notification when 
the record was available. As set forth in enclosed report, applicant 1 s 
record has not yet been located at the Naval Personnel Office here. 


This stop will be continued at Naval Personnel and should the 
missing record be located, WFQ will review the record and submit a 
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DEPaSTKQ/TAL applicant 

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i&ilieted Service Record Section, 
Deportment of the «avy, has advised Special Employee GERALD F. RT.TSfi that 
the service record of the applicant has not been located end la presumed 
to be lost, misfiled, or mistakenly "charged out." 

Records of the Office of Naval Intelligence Detail, Navy 
Annex, Washington, D. C., «»re checked by Special Baployee GERALD F. BLISS 
and found to contain a request that the applicant's service record be for- 
tarded from Garden City, New fork, but it has not been received. The only 
data in these files concerning the applicant, serial number 748-77-27, 
concerns his re— enlistment March 7# 1947 at Boston, Massachusetts, as a 
Seaman second class. United States Naval Reserve, V-6, for four years 
inactive duty. He was honorably discharged July 16, 1947 for the convenience 
of the government* There is no derogatory information concerning the appli- 
cant in theae^ files . 

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ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY 


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On morning of January 28, 1954, Robert Trane to Kennedy 
called Director 1 # Office and otated he would like to talk over 
personal matters with Director . Arrangements made for Kennedy 
to see Director at 4:00 p.m, same day . / Kennedy is son of 
Joseph p . Kennedy, former ambassador to England, and brother of 
Senator John F . Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts . On 
September 14, 1951, we opened Departmental applicant case on 
i Kennedy who was applying for position of attorney in Criminal 
iDiuieion. Investigation failed to reflect any de rogatory informa- 
I tion and persons contacted recommended highly, Kennedy born 
Boston, Massachusetts, November 20, 1925. Attended Harvard 
University, Bates College, and received law degree from Virginia 
IAW School in 1951, Served in U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946. 

|J (rs. George Shake 1 tnvited Director to attend a carriage of her 
Jdaughter, Ethel, to Kennedy in Greenwich, Connecticut , on June 17, 
*1950. invitation declined, m l/ay, 1953, Robert T • Kennedy as 
.an assistant counsel of permanent Subcommittee on Investigations 
I of the Committee on Government Ope rations gave considerable 
1 testimony regarding ships carrying cargo to Communist China • 
Senator McCarthy gave credit to Kennedy and other members on his 
staff for agreement worked out with Greek shipowners to not carry 
goods to Communist China, m October, 1953, we received Security 
of Government Employees form for Kennedy when he was applying for 
positton of Assistant to Commissioner on the Commission on 
Organisation of the Executive Branch of the Government • re con- 
ducted no inueetipation. 


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On the morning of January 26, 1954, Robert Franc to 
Kennedy called the Director 's Office and ad vtsed that he would 
like to talk over come personal matters with the Director . 
Arrangements were made for Kennedy to come in to see the 
Director at 4:00 p.m. the same day . 


Robert Francis Kennedy is the son of Joseph P. Kennedy, 
former ambassador to England and the brother of Senator John 
F • Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts. 


On September 14, 1951, we opened a Departmental 
applicant case on Robert Franc tm^Kennedy, who was applying 
for a position of attorney in the Criminal Division . Back - 
ground information furnished indicated he was. born in Boston , 
Massachusetts , on November 20, 1925, and attended Harvard 
Gniversity, Bates College, and received his law degree from 
the Virginia Law School in 1951 . Be served in the United 
States Navy from 1944 to 1946. Investigation in this case 
failed to reflect any derogatory information concerning 
Kennedy, and all persons interviewed recommended him very 
highly. (77-5136?) 

An invitation postmarked May 19, 1950, from Mr. and 
Mrs. George Skakel and addressed to Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Hoover 
requested the honor of the Director f e presence at the marrtage 
of their daughter Ethel to Robert Francis Kennedy on Saturday , 
June 17, in Greenwich, Connecticut . This tnvttation was declined. 
(62-12186-3444) 

A transcript of the hearings before the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government 
Operations in the United States held on May 4 and 20, 1953, 
reflects that Robert F. Kennedy, assistant counsel for that 
committee, gave considerable testimony regarding Ships carry- 
ing cargo to Communist China in 1952 . (62-98810-109) 

A Washington City News Service release dated March 
i 30, 1953, goes into considerable detail about the agreement 
* that Senator McCarthy had worked out with Greek shipowners 
not to transport goods to Communist China . The press release 
states that McCarthy gave full credit and high praise for his 
agreement to subcommittee general counsel, Francis D. Flanagan 


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(former Agent), and assistant counsels, Robert F.^Kennedy and 
william A, Lee ce (former Agent)* (62-98610 sub A) * 

On October 14, 1953 , we received o Security of 
Government Employees form for Robert Francis Kennedy • This 
form reflected that he was an applicant for the position of 
assistant to Commissioner Kennedy on the Commission on 
Organisation of the Executive Branch of the Government • No 
investigation was conducted, but five reports were forwarded 
to the Commission taken from the Departmental applicant 
investigation we had conducted in 1951 • (140-1-2062) 






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proposed pending visit with the Director. You will recall 
that a background memorandum was prepared under date of 
January 26, 1954 , setting forth a brief summary of informa- 
tion in Bureau files concerning Kennedy. Indices reflect no 
references to Kennedy subsequent to December , 1953 . 


It is to be noted that the Director saw Kennedy , 
apparently on a personal matter, on January 26 and also on 
February 15, 1954. 


The memorandum dated January 28, 1954 , 
R EC 0F1SFN DA TION : 

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Ambassador to Snglamd^ 

Robert T» Kennedy is the brttfcer of John Titsgerald 
Kennedy, United Stale 3 J&uttor from Massachusetts • 

These data are being furnished for your 
information mith the request that they not be further 
disseminated • Mo additional investigation is contemplated 
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Kennedy « es Counsel to Permanent Subcommittee on Investiga- 
tions, U. 8. Senate, on ooosslon nay be granted eccees to 
top secret notarial of Defense Department. OSD requested 
any Investigation subsequent to 9-18-51# « 

Kennedy is son of Joseph P. Kennedy, former 
Ambassador to i&gland, end brother of Senator John F. Kennedy 
Democrat of Kaaeaohuaetta. On 9-14-51* Bureau opened 
Departmental applicant oeee on Robert Kennedy, who was 
applying for position of attorasy In Criminal Division. * 
Investigation refleeted no derogatory Information, and 
persona contacted reooanended highly. Reports of thlsi 
Investigation furnished to OSD 3-10-53# (77-51387) u 

On 1-28 end 2-15-54* Robert Franc le Kennedy sew 
the Director apparently on e personal matter. 


The above data were furnished Deputy Att 
Oenerel Rogers and Assistant Attorney General XoagJ 
memoranda dated 0-30, 11-29 end 12-22-54. yK 105-315 
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ROBERT TRAN CIS KENNEDY 
* REQUEST TO MEET IBS DIRECTOR 

PURPOSE t 

To furntsh tdenttfytng data concerning Kennedy, Chief 
Couneel 9 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations , who, on 
July 20, 1955, requested to pay hie respects to the Director before 
leaving on a trtp to Southern Russia. The Director indicated he 
would see Kennedy at 10:15 a.m., July 21, 1955 . >/ ^ 

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‘^/Kennedy was born November 20, 1925, at Boston, Massachusetts, 
attended Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School . 

He is the son of Joseph P . Kennedy, former Ambassador to England 
and brother of Senator John T. Kennedy ( D - Mass*) J 

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INFORMATION IN BUREAU FILES 

In September, 1951, the Bureau conducted a Departmental 
Kpplicant Investigation of Kennedy in connection with a position 
as attorney tn the Criminal Division . Investigation was favorable 
and persons contacted recommended highly, 

I On January 26, and February J.5, 1954, Kennedy saw the Director, 

apparently on personal matters. M 

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In' February, 1954, Senator McCarthy requested an investigation 
of Kennedy on the basis of his reappointment to the staff of the 
Senate Subcommittee. No investigation was conducted since Kennedy 
had already been appointed and McCarthy and Deputy Attorney General 
Rogers were so advised by letter . (62-98810-310,309.) U 



In March, 1954, you talked with Kennedy concerning the 
testimony of Mr. and Mrs. James Branca tn the Annie Lee Moss case 
and the Director noted, v The attitude of Kennedy tn this matter clearly 
shows need for absolute circumspection in any conversation with him." 

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In Doc ember, 1954 $ information wae reoeived from tho 
State Department indicating Juetice William 0 , Douglas wae planning 
to go to the Soviet Unton tn Auguit, 1955 , and to be accompanied by 
Robert Kennedy , Douglae indicated that the trip would be for one 
month and that they planned to go through Moscow and Leningrad, jJ 
(65-30092-5264) 


In January , 1955, Bureau/fiirnfeixi <$ information to the 
effect that Kennedy and hie Subcommittee was conducting inquirtee 
on wire tapping tn the Dietrict of Columbia and that they had 
contacted off icicle of the telephone company in thie connection , 

( 62-12114-2866) ii 


On May 13, 1955, Kennedy wae a gueet on the Dave Oarroway 
Television Program and wae questioned concerning the Dr, John Peters 
case, Sie comments concerning the FBI were favorable, (121-4200-167 ) J 


Tou will recall that Harry Lev testified reoently before 
Kennedy's Subcommittee in. connection with the manufacture of mtlttary 
hate and caps and/ tikfPVSWtacted by Bureau Agents prior to Lev's 
testimony, Kennedy was uncooperative in that he advised the Agents 
he would prefer waiting until testimony of Lev had been completed, 
then he would be more than glad to turn over everything concerning 
thts case to the FBI, In this connection the Director noted, in part, 
" Kennedy was completely uncooperative until after he had squeezed 
all the publicity out of the matter he could," (46-23395-107) 


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When advised of the Director's absence from the 
office, Mr. Kennedy asked that the following message 
be given to the Director. 

I Mr. Kennedy stated that he was leaving for Southern 
[Russia a week from tomorrow, July 27th, and would 
like very much to come by the office to see the 
Director sometime before be leaves. He indicated 
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Mr. Kennedy stated he was leaving town and 
would not return until approximately Wednesday 
of next week but he would be available any time 
after that that would be convenient to you. 

I told Mr. Kennedy that you were presently 

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counsel for the Senate Investigations Subcommittee, who will see the 
Director at 4:00 p.m., November 3, 1955 . 4 

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA : 

Kennedy was born November SO, 1925, at Boston, Massachusetts, 
attended Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School . He is the 
son of Joseph t. Kennedy, former ambassador to England, and brother of 
Senator John F. Kennedy (D. -Massachusetts) 

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BUREAU INVESTIGATION OF KENNEDY : 

m * n September, 1951, the Bureau conducted a Departmental applicar 
investigation of Kennedy in connection with a position as attorney in 
.the Criminal Division . The investigation was favorable and individuals 
contacted recommended him highly.il 



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In December, 1954, information was received from the State 
Department indicating Kennedy and Justice William 0. Douglas were planning 

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November 1 , 1955 


August, 1955 , On July SI, 1955, Kennedy 
that he was leaving for Southern Russia, 



* The October 21, 1955, issue Of V, S , News & World Report 

contains an article (attached) entitled "A Look Behind the Russian 
Smiles," which is an interview with Kennedy covering his six-week tour 
of Russia and Central Asia , This is a rather lengthy article which 
reflects Kennedy's views of Russian life , It points out that in some 
areas they were the first American visitors tn many, many years / that 
the secret police watched Douglas and Kennedy, monitored their conversa- 
tions and prohibited their travel to some areas • The article covers 
slave labor camps, segregated schools, the general life of people in 
Russia, the activities of LTD personnel , and general information concerning 
living conditions in Russia, ^ 

MISCELLANEOUS : 

Kennedy talked with the Director on January 28 and February 15, 
1954, apparently on personal matters, J 

In Larch, 1954, Kennedy talked with Mr, Nichols concerning the 

I testimony of Mr, and Mrs, James Branca in the Annie Lee Moss casejand the 
Director noted , "The attitude of Kennedy in this matter clearly shows 
need for absolute circumspection in any conversation with him, u 



In January, 1955, the Bureau ioas confidentially advised that 
Kennedy and his subcommittee were conducting inquiries on wire tapping 
in the District of Columbia and that they had contacted telephone company 
officials in this regard, y 

In 1955, Harry Lev testified before Kennedy's subcommittee in 
connection with the manufacture of military hats and caps. Contacted by 
Bureau Agents before Lev's testimony, Kennedy was uncooperative in that 
he advised Agents he would prefer waiting until Lev's testimony had been 
completed and then make data concerning this case available to the Bureau, 
In thi3 connection the Director noted, "Kennedy ioas completely un coopera- 
tive until after he had squeezed all the publicity out of the matter he 
could, 


RECOm-ENDA TION i 

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with ROBERT F. KENNEDY- 

Counsel for Senate Investigations Subcommittee 


A LOOK BEHIND 
THE RUSSIAN SMILES 



What h life like in far Soviet comers? Ate 
tnfflions really kept In slavery? 

Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel for the 
i Senate Investigations Subcommittee, occom- 
I ponied Supreme Court Justice William O. 
t Douglas on a tour of Central Asia, and took 
the photos of Russian life shown here. In many 


of the areas no visiting Americans had been 
[ seen since the Russian Revolution. 



Doors were opened and privileges extended. 
But the secret police watched Justice Douglas 
and Mr. Kennedy and monitored their conver- 
sations. Travel to some places was prohibited. 

Yet much was learned about life In the 
U.S.S.R., and also about what lies hidden be- 
hind the Russians* new "friendly** approach. 

While abroad, Mr. Kennedy, on leave from 
the Subcommittee, paid his own expenses. 


Q How long were you in Russia, Mr. Kennedy? 

A Just under six weeks. 

O Where did you go? 

A We spent most of our time in Central Asia, which is 
composed of five countries -Kazakhstan* Turkmenistan, Uzbe- 
kistan, Tadzhikistan and Kirghizia. 

Q You were the first Americans to be over there? 

A In some parts. Other Americans have gone to some of 
the cities, but in other parts they haven't allowed anyone. 

Q What was your major reason for going? 

A We were chiefly interested in going there because it is 
the “colonial” area of the Soviet Union— the people are en- 
tirely different from the natives of Central Russia— they are 
of Turkish and Iranian stock with a strong Mongolian strain. 

Another reason that made it interesting is that it is a highly 
religious area. 

At least up until 40 years ago the people were devoted 
followers of Mohammed, and it was an interesting question 
as to what had occurred since the Communists took over. 
Another interest was the remoteness of the region— there had 
been very few visitors, and yet the importance of the region 
cannot be overestimated. Its a large area, about 1.5 million 
aquaxe miles— it’s bigger than India before partition and larger 
than all of Western Europe. It has a population of something 
under 20 million, which is relatively small* but it still exceeds 
the population of Canada or Australia. 

The countries that border on Central Asia are so compara- 
tively well known— Persia* Afghanistan, Sinkiang-we even 
had a representative in Sinkiang up until 1947. All those 
countries have had visitors and have had books written about 
them. But in this area there seemed to be a lack of knowledge 
and a lack of travelers. From 1500 up until the middle of the 
nineteenth century, Samarkand had only two visitors— both 
Russians— one happened to go there by chance and another 


one was sent there* a Russian envoy. Otherwise there were no 
foreigners. Bukhara and other sections of Central Asia have 
been almost as isolated. # 

O When did this region become part of the Russian em- 
pire? 

A Some of it starting around 1869, but part of it— for in- 
stance, Bukhara— was ruled by an emir until 1924 or 1925. 
He was independent prior to the Revolution— he operated on 
his own authority. The Russians had conquered the land 
around, but he controlled his part. He kept a harem* and 
some of the women who lived in the harem are still alive. 
He owned 400 concubines and a number of wives. 

Q And these countries are all now republics under the 
U.S.S.R.-cach one a unit? 

A Yes. And they each speak separate languages. 

Q Do they have any newspapers in that area? 

A They had newspapers— 

Q In what language? 

A 1 believe in their own local language, as well as Pravda 
and Izvestia. 

We were in Baku in Azerbaijan before we entered Central 
Asia* and a guide was pointing out the Russian accomplish- 
ments. We came to a building and he said, “There is where 
the 100 newspapers in Azerbaijan are published.” They are 
all published in the same building. 

Q How did you happen to go with Justice Douglas on this 
trip? 

A He came down to speak at the University of Virginia 
about five years ago. I was head of an organization which 
invited him, and we were talking about some of his trips, and 
he said he was hoping to go to Central Asia and asked if J 
would be interested. I said I would* and he had been trying 
every year since then to get visas. 

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Schools . . . A Million Resisting Natives Disappeared 


A We flew across die Caspian directly into Central Asia, 
where we spent most of our time. Then we traveled to West- 
ern Siberia, where we visited the cities of Barnaul, Novosi- 
birsk and Omsk. We then flew to Moscow for six days, and 
then to Leningrad for a couple of days, and then I came out 
through Warsaw, spending two or three days there and 
afterward taking the train to Berlin. Justice Douglas went 
out through Helsinki. 

Q Did you travel by plane? 

A Yes, we traveled in Central Asia by commercial plane. 

Q Are there mads? 

A There are few paved roads in the cities in the western 
part of Central Asia. Further east more of them are paved. 
In a city like Bukhara maybe 30 per cent of the roads in the 
city are paved, and of course all the roads outside the cities 
are not paved— it would be impossible to drive a car through 
the area. 

Q Did you take your radio in there? 

A We did not. 

Q How did you know what was going on in the rest of the 
world? 

A We didn't know, we didn't have any idea. For instance, 
we never knew of the release of the prisoners from China 
until after we got to Moscow, 

Q The newspapers didn't tell you? 

A We would ask each day as the guide read them, but we 
were never told those things— for what reason, 1 don't know. 
There is a radio going in all of those cities, in the streets and 
in all the stores- All the farms that we visited have loud- 


Robert F. Kennedy, 29, i» «t present chief coun- 
gel of the Senate Investigations Subcommittee. 

Boston bom, Mr. Kennedy is a son of Joseph P. 
Kennedy, former U. S. Ambassador to Great 
Britain. He is a graduate of Harvard, where he 
played varsity football in 1946-47, and of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia Law School. 

In 1952 he managed the campaign in which his 
older brother, John F. Kennedy (Dem.), of Mas- 
sachusetts, was elected to the Senate. Last year the 
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce voted Robert 
Kennedy one of the country’s 10 outstanding 
young men. Also in 1954 he saved as counsel for 
the Democratic members of the Senate Subcom- 
mittee during the McCarthy -Stevens hearings. 


speakers. They even have loud-speakers for the people 
working in the fields; they have loud-speakers in the machine- 
tractor stations; they have loud-speakers for the factory work- 
er. They go all day long. 

O Is it music? 

A It's music; then they have the news and talks. 

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O Too cant get «wi 7 iron ft? 

A No, it fust drive* you oat of your nrfn^ 

O Not o meant of aBcaceP 
A No. 

O What about in people’* homes? 

A I suppose they can turn ft off there, but, if you go into 
•Jtore, a department *tore, they wil] have a loud-dealer 

O-Do people hsten to it? 

A I couldn’t tell that 
© 'Who furnished your guide? 

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A 1 taow of tome plants, for Instance, in Stalinabad Be- 
fore Wong this trip 1 had read of this plant in Stalinabad, and 
* *fked the guide what industry^ 
had, and he aud just textiles. He said that that was die sole 
mernis of support It ultimately developed when we talked 
fy that they have a number of mines 
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a Keel plant. Our load guide, on this occasion as weB as 
others, gave us a good deal of mkmfonnatiocL 

Q Are they developing any new lands or making any efort 
to Wag pe opl e down into that area? 

A A lot of Russians have dome in in the last 10 or 15 
yaus. *- 

Q ^Ut about Orientals— Chinese, Indians— did you see 

any? 

A N* but of course the people are Oriental-looking. They 
are a mixture of the Turk race and the people who came in 
with Genghis Khan. They have the slanted eyes, the high 
cheek bones, the goatee, the little mustaches -they are com- 
pletely different They are as different from the Russiar people 
as the Malayan people are from the English, the Algerian 


from the French. There fa danfatrfy no connection what- 
soever, and, as I say, that fa what^nade the area particularly 
Interesting. 

Q Is It a colony, In oAact? 

A Yes, ft fa. It fa the Russian colonial empire as Morocco 
and Algeria are the French colonial empire. 

Q Is there any spirit of nationalism? 

A There must be, although its difficult to tell. The native 
people have suffered a good deal under die Russians. Prior 
to going there, we knew this to be a fact from the statistics 
published by the Russians themselves. In Kazakhstan, for 
Instance, during the collectivization, the Russians took a cen- 
sus in 1926 and published the number of Kazakhs in Kazakh- 
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■tan, which «m a Utile bit under 4 mObon. In 1939 they pob- 
fched another census of tbe number of nationalities in the 
whole of the Soviet Union, end included therein was the 
■timber of Kazakhs fa die whole of die Soviet Union and that 


was a little to above 3 million. The Kazakhs during this 13- 
ytaj period had been decimated about 1 million. 

O By deaths? 



A That's die question. All through the rest of the Soviet 
Utom die population increased 15 per cent, which means 
thnt jhe Kazakhs ordinarily would have been up to 4.5 
aaBion, if they followed the percentage of tbe rest. Instead 
Aeyfrere reduced to 3 million or * little bit over. 

O Did they resist the Russians? 

A That was the charge, at least. There were some Ameri- 
cans in that area at the time who said that the slaughter was 
terrible. The Kazakhs are nomads, they are fiercely inde- 
pendent people. There was an engineer named Scott in there 
and also a man named Lfttlepage, who were in die area 
during this period— 

Q When did you meet them? 

A I didn’t; I have read some of their writings. During that 
time the population was decimated, and we tried to get an 
explanation of it from university professors and judges as to 
what had happened to all these people, whether they had 
fled the country or had been killed. The people to whom we 
talked, of course, claimed there had been no opposition to 
collectivization during this period of time. 

These were Soviet statistics— they weren't something made 
up by people in the United States— so we asked how they 
explained what had happened to the Kazakhs. They just 
couldn’t explain it. They were completely at a loss. The chief 
judge at Alma-Ata said that some of them were misled and 
fled over the border to China and now were coming back. 
But, once they admit even that, they admit there was opposi- 
tion to the Russian program. 

]n addition, there were stories that these people slaughtered 
large amounts of their cattle rather than turn them over to the 
state. In Soviet Central Asia from 1928 to 1937, the number 
of sheep and goats was reduced to almost one third— 18 
million to less than 6 million. 


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During the same period of time horses and cattle declined 
from a little over 5 million to 2.5 million. The region’s total 
livestock herd in 1934 was only about 45 per cent of what 
it had been in 1928. This gives you an indication of what 
was taking place in the area. 

Q These animals were slaughtered by the Kazakhs them- 
selves? 

A Yes, and by their neighbors in the other four republics 
of Central Asia. 

O Are there any Europeans in there? 

A Russians, of course, but very few others. We asked in 
various places, but there hasn’t been more than a handful of 
visitors into any of these areas in Central Asia. We saw a lot 
of Chinese up in Siberia when we went through there— plane- 
loads coming through. 

Q How far over in Siberia did you get? 

A It was an interesting story why we went to Siberia. We 
wanted to go there for a short visit anyway, but we had 
wanted to go up into the "new lands” in Kazakhstan to see 
the ^virgin lands” program. We wanted to go up through a 
city called Karaganda, and then continue north and west, 
stop and inspect the new-lands program and then go on up 
through Siberia to Moscow. We told our guide that we wanted 
to stop at Karaganda on the way. Several days later our 
guide came to us and told us he had found a better area for 
us to visit the virgin lands. 



UZBEK MAN leaving o mosque 



KAZAKH women ot o collective form 


We asked whether we should drive, and he said it was 
probably better for us to take a plane. In consultation with 
the local government officials, we were told that to fly to 
this new area would take about an hour and that we could 
go on to Karaganda from there. 

We asked whether we should leave our clothes in 
Alma-Ata, where ye were, and stop to pick them up on 
our way to Karaganda, but they advised us to take 
them along with us. We boarded -the plane early one morn- 
ing, and six and a half hours later and more than 1,000 
miles away we got out. We had been shipped to Siberia. 
Then they told us we couldn't go to Karaganda as there 
were no planes there. 

We wanted to get to Karaganda because it was in Central 
Asia and because it was a coal-mining district. In addition. 




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there was industry and copper mines that we wanted to see. 
So we told them if there were no planes we would take the 
train bade to Karaganda. They said there are no trains out of 
there, and the only thing to do was to go north and get a 
plane out of Novosibirsk. 

We stayed and inspected the virgin-lands program in Bar- 
naul* and several days later flew on to Novosibirsk. There 
they tokT us we could not possibly go to Karaganda, there 
were do planes and the trains were bad and, anyway, ft was 
too far. We told them we were planning to go bade no mat- 
ter how difficult it might seem. So we started back. When 
we had gotten within a reasonable distance we were told by 
the local government officials, **We've got orders from Moscow 
that you can't go there.** 

We found out lateT that there were trains from Barnaul to 


a city very close to Karaganda and that we could also have 
gotten a plane from Novosibirsk to a city very close to Kara- 
ganda. In addition, we learned that we never had to go to 
Barnaul in the first place because there are very important 
virgin lands right outside Karaganda. 

Q How do you explain that run-around? 

A We learned in Moscow that Karaganda is one of the 
great slave-labor camps in the Soviet Union. Some of the 
Spanish soldiers, volunteers of World War II who were re- 
leased last year, had been working there and have told about 
ft. The Russians didn't want us to tee it. But they never said 
no— just gave us the run-around until they saw we were going 
to get there. 

Q So there is no freedom to travel there? 

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you any information about diem. 

Q You weren't trying to fee anything military, anyway, 
were you? 

A No. We were interested in the coal mines. Justice 
Douglas was particularly in teres ted -he had been up to Beth- 
lehem, Pa., and had inspected the steel plant and had gone 
through some of the coal mines around there, and he wanted 
to go into Karaganda and make a sort of comparative study. 
It is one of the areas in Central Asia that has industry like 
Bethlehem, and It would have been an interesting study.' 

O Do they maintain anv boons in tiiat area? 


A In every city that we went to they do have troops— it's 
one of the things that strike you. One of die other things which 
were of interest to me was the fact that there were so many 
troops doing manual labor, which is something you don't see 
in this country. 

Q Were they in uniform? 

A Yes. A great controversy was raised about Korea a num- 
ber of years ago— about using our troops for labor purposes, 
but these men in Russia are put to laying the pipes in the 
streets, putting up buildings, laying bricks. We saw it in 
Frunze. Tashkent and other cities. They do the majority of 
the work in the oil fields around Baku. 

O Do they get paid extra for that? 

A No. It is one of the things that bear on this question 
recently in the news about letting 600,000 soldiers out of 


the Red Army. They might take their uniforms off and have 
them continue at the same job. Of course, Baku is their oil 
center, and they had soldiers driving all the trucks. There 
were hardly any other workers there, other than uniformed 
men. Even in Siberia, they had soldiers erecting the adminis- 
tration building ut the airport. 

O In the towns, where the soldiers were lounging around, 
did they have their guns with them? 

A Ves, often. 

O How do they understand the language? 

A I don't think they have any problem with that— in per- 
forming their duties they probably don’t have much contact 
with the local people. In addition, more and more people now 
understand Russian. This is so despite the fact that the Rus- 
sians maintain one set of schools for their children and one 


set of schools for the dhfldrea of the local people. It is s 
segregated school s yst e m 

q urUy u 

A The explanation the dfcfeb gave us is that people like 
their own schools. 

Q It isn’t a racial question? 

A I believe that is a reasonable assumption. In every city 
that we visited in Central Ask the schools were segregated— 
the Russian school children in one school, the local children 
fe> another. 

O Is there a difference in color b e twe en the Russians and 
the natives? 

A Oh, yes, they are completely different 

ft I jn gMtJcr* 

A Oh, yes. The Russians are European, white. The natives 
are Mongolian— a dark race. 

O What about the religion? You said earlier the entire 
legion is Moslem— 

A Well, in Bukhara, which once was the center of religious 
fanaticism, even probably more so than Mecca, they had 
300 mosques and religious schools 35 years ago. Now they 
have one mosque, and that looks like it is about to fall down, 
and one school there where they teach about 100 students 
and which has to serve the whole of Centra) Asia. They 
don't have a mosque in Krasnovodsk. They don’t have a 
mosque in Ashkhabad. Kruno vodsk has about 100,000 popu- 
lation and Ashkhabad over 200,000. The mosque there was 
partially damaged during an earthquake in 1948 and has 
never been rebuilt. And they have no mosque in Stalinabad, a 
city of about 300,000. 

So it is rather difficult for them to practice their religion, 
particularly in the face of the outspoken hostility of their 
Government. Communism teaches there is no God and that 
religion is for backward people, and Russia obWously wants 
no backward people. 

O You had no means of telling whether they had fallen 
away? 

A No. In Bukhara we went to a Moslem service on Friday, 
and there were only about 20 people in attendance— they were 
all old men. However, you hear conflicting reports as to 
whether people are more or less active in their religion than 
they were a few years ago. There is no doubt that the Rus- 
sians have tried to destroy the peoples religious belief. 
Whether they have been successful is difficult to tell. There 
are a great number of Baptists in that area, surprisingly. 

Q Russians or Orientals? 

A Russians. The minister in Tashkent said that in 1952 he 
had a congregation of 700 Baptists, and now he has a con- 
gregation of 2,000. When we attended, there were over 1,000 
people there, and there was also a good-sized congregation 
in Frunze. 

RISE IN CHURCHGOING- 

Q Was that the result of missionary activity? 

A It might be. The newspapers in Russia keep deploring 
the fact that more people are going to church and that even 
Communist Party members are now going to church. There 
might be some significance fblhat. However, I don't feel that 
I am qualified to say. 

Q You say the newspapers deplore the fact that people are 
going to church? 

A Yes. There was a letter in a paper in Moscow from a 
woman who said she was a party member and that her 
fianc£ wanted to get married in the church, and would that 
be proper, and the answer was that it certainly would be 


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oonpletely improper. The Communist Petty is egeinst soy 
ch ure h services, end there ere letters in the papers deploring 
the fact that more people are going to church and that even 
Gonania Party members are going to church. So evidently 
there fa 'fame sort of religious revive] going on inside of 
Russia, fast it is difficult for somebody who doesn’t speak die 
knguayto get the facts on it. 

Q Were there any Catholic services, or Russian Orthodox? 

A There are Russian Orthodox services. There are a num- 
ber of their churches in Central Asia— not in all the cities but 
in some of them. And, again, the ones we went to, there were 
older people, mostly women, attending the service with only 
a small percentage of younger people. However, in contrast, 
at Baptist services there were a great number of young people 
and a great number of men. 

J might add that the Communists have allowed only a few 
churches of any denomination— Jewish, Moslem or Catholic— 
to remain open. Most churches in the Soviet Union have been 
turned into museums or stores and their contents— chalices, 
etc —placed on exhibition. 

Speaking of this religious question, in Leningrad they have 
a museum which is devoted completely to ridiculing God 
and people s religious beliefs. For instance, as you enter they 
have God sitting on top of the cross, wearing a top hat, 
smoking a cigar and portrayed as a capitalist while a work- 
ing man is bent over carrying the Cross and Him. 

SHOW PLACE FOR ASIA- 

Q Did you get the impression that the standard of living 
in Central Asia had risen or fallen? 

A I would say it had risen. 1 think one of the reasons that 
area is so important is that it is going to be an area in which 
the Russians are going to bring in the people of Asia and 
the people of the Middle East, and say, for example, ’'Now 
you know the condition in Iran. There you have absentee 
landlordship, large estates and extremely poor villages. Here 
in Central Asia there is no starvation and the people s standard 
of living is improving each year. Our people are living better 
and better. That's what you can do under Communism.” 

I think this is going to be a tremendous problem. Chester 
Wilmott [British newspaper and radio correspondent, author 
of ”The Struggle for Europe”] said in his book in 1952 that 
the future of the world might well be decided in Central 
Asia. One of the main reasons for that is that the countries 
of the Middle East and Asia will be influenced by the success, 
or lack of it, of Communism in the republics of Central Asia. 
Even now it might well be an impressive sight for people 
coming into this area unless, of course, they consider the 
human sacrifices that were made and are being made to 
achieve tome of these gains— the possible liquidation of 1 mil- 
lion people in Kazakhstan alone, for instance. 

Q YouTpent six weeks, most of it in that area? 

A Ye*. 

Q Did you ever get a chance to talk to anyone alone, or 
was your guide always there? 

A He was always there. We didn’t speak Russian or the 
local language, either one of us. . 

Q They wouldn't let you bring in your own interpreter? 

A No, we tried to, but the Russian Embassy in Washington 
wouldn’t even answer our letters of request. 

Q How do you know this fellow interpreted correctly? 

A We know on occasion he did not But that is one of 


those things. I think we got a great deal out of the trip, and 
we went in with the mdri standing' that that was how it 
would he. 

Q Did you talk with the MVP p e op l e , the secret police? 

A We did. We saw the heads of the MVD in Alma-Ata, 
the capital of Kazakhstan. It was the first time the MVD has 
ever given an interview to people of a foreign country. 
Among the matters we discussed was wire tapping. 

O Did they tap whes? 

A They said that they didn’t They said that they frowned 
upon that ’‘disgraceful” practice, that they never touch mail, 
either; that it was most despicable for anyone to do that 
sort of thing. 

They told us they have about 250 different headquarters 
in Kazakhstan alone. In addition to their own people, they 
control the police as well as the fire department. 

We asked them specifically about the mass movement of 
individuals from one area to another by the MVD. They 
denied to us that they had this power in transporting indi- 
viduals, although it is specifically set forth in their by-laws 
and we know of examples where it has happened. In fact, 
when we were in Siberia we saw some of the people who had 
been so moved and took some pictures of them. 

Q When you say that they don’t tap wires or put in dicta- 
phones, did you hear in Moscow about what Chancellor 
Adenauer of Germany had complained about? 

A I understand that his companions found so many dicta- 
phones in all their hotel rooms that they refused to stay in the 
accommodations prepared for them and ended up sleeping in 
a railroad car in the station. 

Q Did you hear anybody in the embassies complaining 
about wire tapping? 

A I’ve heardlt a great deah 

Q Even before you left this country? 

A Yes, and I think undoubtedly the wires in all the rooms 
we stayed in were tapped. After conversations we had, we 
would find results of things we had said in our rooms. 

Q To each other? 

A Yes, and that would lead us to the unmistakable con- 
clusion that our rooms had taps in them— in fact, we had 
conversations for that purpose alone, because we wanted to 
put over a particular idea and it worked out that way. 

Q What else did the MVD people tell you? " 

A Well, we were interested, of course, in the transporta- 
tion of people. 

ROLE OF SECRET POLICE- 

Q You saw these MVD people in different places? 

A Yes, the uniformed ones we saw in every city we went 
to. We asked the MVD officials if their people were all in 
uniform, and they said, "’Yes.” After pursuing it, they said, 
“On certain jobs we take them out of uniform, but they are 
in uniform most of the time.” And actually we know that a 
large percentage of the MVD are secret police who wear no 
uniform. We asked them if they operated outside the Soviet 
Union, and they said, “No.” And then we asked if there was 
any security organization operating outside the Soviet Union, 
and they said, **No ” 

Then we said there must be something that they do out- 
side the Soviet Union, and they said, "Well, there might be, 
but we don’t know anything about it.” Petrov’s story as it 
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spe ar ed to U.S. Now* & World Report several weeks ago 
{Issue of Sept. SO, 1055] malm that answer untruthful. 

They explained that they had control of the prisons in the 
Soviet Union. We asked f they had any labor in the prison? 
who did work on hriMinp or did work on roads, and the> 
said, “Yes, and tbeparents and wives of these prisoner* writ* 
in and dunk us. Tney thtok ft is wonderful because a lot oJ 
these people never did any work before to their lives, and wc 
put them to work." 

O Did yon talk to these MVD people in many placet? 

A Just at Alma-Ata. We asked about how many prisoner? 
were doing prison work, and they said they had jurisdiction 
only in Kazakhstan so they wouldn’t know. And we asked 
them bow many were doing work in Kazakhstan, and they 
said that they didn’t have those figures at band. Of course, 
Karaganda, which I told you about earlier, is in Kazakhstan 
and is one of the great slave-labor camps in the Soviet 
Union. 

Q You said some of the party officials were a little un- 
pleasant at times— in what way? 

A It was their mannerisms and their refusal on occasion 
to give us honest and coned information, rather than being 
outwardly rude. 

Q They were abrupt? 

A Yes, sometimes. We were always extremely interested 
in the collectivization problem and the local people s opposi- 
tion to it, and that conversation always ended on a rather 
raffled tone. 

Q When you asked about the Kazakhs? 

A Yes, but also about the other peoples of Central Asia. In 
each area, we tried to find out about what problems the 
Government faced during this period when individual owner- 
ship was being abolished. 

HUMAN COST OF "PROGRESS"- 

Q Why were you interested in that particularly? 

A There was the serious allegation that there had been so 
much opposition to collectivization and that the Russians had 
taken stringent measures to crash the local peoples resist- 
ance, that we wanted to find out the facts. You can go into 
this area as a visitor like Nehru [India’s Prime Minister] and 
the degree to which it has been built up is impressive, from 
a materialistic point of view. But I think also the price that 
was paid in human beings in order to make this change and, 
too, that the people have such a difficult life even now should 
be considered. 

Sections of population were banished or liquidated to 
achieve the domination of the state, The breaking down of 
family life is effectively carried out by mothers working for 
the state and depositing their babies progressively in state 
nurseries, later into Pioneer camps, and, ultimately, in the 
Young Communist League. During this most important forma- 
tive period the children and the young people are being thor- 
oughly indoctrinated that their first love should be the state, 
not God, their parents or their family. * 

Q How young do they take the children? 

A In the nurseries they take them at the age of 2 months. 
They are not supposed to take them until they are 7 years 
old in the Pioneer camps, but at the one we went to we saw 
children of 3 or 4 yean of age. The woman in charge ex- 
plained that these children were just visiting for the day, 
when we inquired, but then, when the rest of the children 
sang songs, these younger ernes knew all the words. 

Incidentally, one of the songs they sang was about the 
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workers of the Soviet Union-end all this starting at the age 
of 3 or 4. 

Q These w ine ries -do the Httie ones star there aD the 
time? Do they go home at night? 

A Yes, I imagine so. However, we were there at 6:30 
at night and, out of a group of 110 children in this particular 
nursery, fb ere were about 60 left, die oldest being 3. The 
pai e uls iiont going to see a great deal of them at that rate. 

O w then they go in the morning early? 

A Yes, and they provide a little room where, if you are 
nursing ^fcur child, you can come in and nurse the child and 
then go beck to the factory. 

Q Going back to the houses, die Russians usually have pic- 
tures fa their houses— are there pictures of Stalin? 

A in the administration building of the farms they always 
had pictures of Lenin and Stalin and sometimes of other 
Communist leaders such as Molotov, and occasionally we saw 
Mao Tie-tun g*s picture. However, they have Lenin and Stalin 
everywhere, until it comes out of your ears. On the floors of 
every hotel, in the streets, they have statues and pictures— 
every place you go. 

While in Russia we inquired into the question of academic 
freedom and the right of the citizen or the press to criticize 
the Government. We talked to judges, professors and presi- 
dents of the universities, and they said there wasn't any op- 
position because what the Government did was always right. 
All the people of Russia realized this and realized that if they 
opposed the Government they would be wrong, and so, there- 
fore, no one did. What the Government did was absolutely 
correct, they said, so why would anybody oppose it? 

Q Did you find in the cities that there were sections with 
office buildings, or were they small business sections and the 
rest all rural in appearance, in these cities of 800,000? 

A The business and living quarters are interspersed in the 
cities. Tashkent is a city of 800,000, and there it’s a 25-year 
plan that they have— in which" time they are * going to Ary to 
modernize the city. They gave us a figure that 50 per cent of 
the city' is still the old city. It looked like probably even more 
than that, but there are some very’ beautiful parks and very 
beautiful trees. 

A FORM OF SLAVERY? YES- 

Q You mentioned the question of slavery— do you think 
their whole system really is a form of slavery? What is the 
broad impression you took away? 

A I believe it is. Communism retains its basic evils whether 
it is the Khrushchev type or the more oppressive Stalin type. 
Recently the new rulers have made certain concessions in the 
Soviet Union to the people— for instance, they allow them now 
to go into Red Square, they allow them to visit the Kremlin. 
The farmer is permitted to plant more things that he wants 
to on his own private lot— they have made certain concessions. 
But the main things about controlling Government still exist 
in the hands of the Presidium. 

They haven't relinquished any of the real power, and 
the ordinary citizen feels the full extent of it— even to where 
a factory or farm worker cannot leave his iob without per- 
mission of his superior— in other words, the state. 

They still have on the books that idea that the MVD 
through the Department of Interior can try somebody with a 
secret trial and send him off to prison and extend the sentence 
when he is in prison. You have intense concentration on labor 
— that everybody must work for the state, the women must 
work— so therefore the family unit, which I think our society 
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• • • "I don’t think U» S. should make all those concessions" 


If buflt oa, it all broken down. You ere w or ki ng (or the state 
—that’* the important thing, ft’s not your mother or your father 
Or your family, it's the state— the state has become god in 


A But people coming beck from Russia me aD ringing 
tpfi n of praises— Senators, Cong ressm en saying they found 
A padt better than they expected, and Russia they thought 
mm fine, the people are getting along aD right, and so on. 
Did you come back with that highly favorable idea? 

A No, I think you can tell that 1 didn't like what I saw. 

Q Why did they get that reaction— why did it seem that 
way to them? 

A That I don't know. 

I think it is difficult to go into just a city like Moscow and 
Leningrad and come out with an impression of a country’, 
any znore than if you just came to New York and Washington. 
But 1 think, however, it is the easiest thing in the world for 
the Russians to say now that they want peace, and that they 
are going to cut down their Army by 600,000. However, there 
is still no inspection. 

I don't fee that they have made any move that anybody 
can check on. As I say, these small concessions they make 
to their own people are concessions that will mean nothing 
to the Government and the Government's control of the peo- 
ple. They are just irritants on the people anyway— they are 
not conceding anything. 

In return for their allowing some Senators and some of 
the rest of us into the Soviet Union, there is talk in our 
country, as well as a lot of countries in Europe, of cutting 
down our defense commitments. 1 haven't kept up with the 
papers here— I haven't had a chance to read them— but I see 
we are talking about sending over more technical magazines, 
allowing more technical magazines to go out. We are talking 
about allowing more trade in strategic goods. In 1954, after 
the meeting in Paris, we cut the list [of prohibited exports to 
Russia] by 50 per cent and are now talking about cutting 
ft even more, The agricultural delegation unquestionably 
made s tremendous contribution to Soviet agriculture. 


INEFFICIENCY ON FARMS- 

Q Which delegation? 

A Our group that went there, and their group that came 
here. We are so far more efficient— in the Soviet Union the 
average farm worker can handle four hectares of farm land, 
which is about 10 acres. In this country our farmers can 
individually handle 20 hectares, which is about 50 acres. 
We are that much more efficient. 

We visited one of the best cotton farms, outside of Tash- 
kent, which is the center of their cotton production and where 
their production per acre is about as good as we have in this 
country. It is very productive and they have done a good job. 
But each worker would handle maybe 1 hectare or IX hec- 
tare of cotton— about 3 or 4 acres. In this country a worker 
wfll handle between 8 and 10 hectares of cotton— about 25 
acres of cotton— on the average cotton farm. On farms in 
Iowa, one worker handles about 55 hectares of corn, about 
135 acres. 

In the Soviet Union, on an extremely good farm that we 
visited, each worker was handling between 3 and 4 hectares 
—about 10 acres of com. It is the same with wheat. The 
average worker handles 70 hectares of wheat in Nebraska, or 
about 175 acres, while on these good farms we visited in the 


Soviet Union they were \mtiKng about 40 acres of wheat. 

They have a labor shortage fa the Soviet Union, and get- 
ting these people off these farms on to the new lands and 
putting them back into factories is a tremendous contribution 
to the Soviet economy— wh ich, of course, is a war economy. 

Q They say they are going to be our brothers— 

A That’s fine. All I say is— and Tin all in favor of that, I 
think its terrific, and I think we should have more trade 
and mil of that— but all I cay is: Before we do all those 
things let's get a quid pro quo on it. Just on the basis of a 
smile, I don't think we should make all those concessions. 
They have a system of government which is entirely differ- 
ent from ours, which » based on the rights and dignity of 
tiie individual. I am not saying they aren't entitled to 
theirs, but they just don't believe in the same sort of things 
we 4?. 

Take the labor unions. Their idea of a labor union's duties 
is to make sure that the sanitary conditions are properly 
maintained in the factories. 

Q Did you inquire about it? 

A Yes. We asked what would happen if they felt the mem- 
bers of their union were not getting paid enough. They 
said, "Oh, that’s impossible, because the state decides how 
much a worker is going to get paid, and they believe in the 
worker." 

HOW "LIBERALS" STAND- 

Q How do you account for the fact that so many people 
in America who call themselves “liberals” are so enthusiastic 
about Russian things and want us to recognize them and play 
ball with them? Why, if all this ideological thing is contrary 
to true liberalism, why is there such a sympathy for them? 

A 1 think the same groups have made mistakes before. 

Q It seems to me everything you have said would be 
anathema to any real liberal”— 

A That is what I can't understand either. 

Q Take Justice Douglas— were his views and yours the 
same? 

A I have the greatest admiration for Justice Douglas— I 
would not presume to speak for him. 

Q Did they make a great many concessions to you over 
there? 

A Some concessions, at least over the old policies— the fact 
that we are allowed to travel in Central Asia at all, and, in 
addition, I think they showed us things and allowed us to do 
things they wouldn't have permitted a year ago, but I don't 
think it adds up to a great deal. 

Since they have changed their policy nobody has gained 
but them. The fact that Justice Douglas, five Senators and 
Bob Kennedy were able to go to Russia— what is that for 
America to get out of ft? 

For instance, you've got a Government in Burma which is 
trying to exist, and we might disagree with some parts of it, 
but it's a democratic Government that is trying to exist. And 
you’ve got a Cominform thaf £ trying to destroy it. 

Why don't they announce they are going to withdraw sup- 
port from Communist organizations in India, Burma or 
Malaya, or even Italy, or France or this country? Why don't 
they actually come through and withdraw support and stop 
supplying money to their forces within the countries that are 
trying to overthrow the local governments? 

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• . . " We have contributed to Russia's military strength" 


How about withdrawing their troops from Poland or 
Eastern Europe, allowing the unification of Germany, or 
giving their independence bad: to die people of Estonia, 
Latvia and Lithuania? 

&4t*s have something like that Or lets allow complete 
j#v Inspection. 1 think they should make some definite con- 
tribution other than tipping their hat and smiling. 

■^0 Were you impressed by the strength of Russia? 

A Of course, they have terrific numbers and the whole 
State Is controlled by five or six people that can deckle the 
future overnight or in a minute, and that gives them power. 

Q Other visitors come hade and say they get a feeling of 
power or strength m Russia— 

A I don't know what they mean by that I think die Rus- 
sians unquestionably have a strong Army. They have sacri- 
ficed a lot in order to build their military forces, their tanks 
and planes. However, we have contributed to their military 
Strength in die past We went through the steel plant in 
Novosibirsk, and most of the machinery in the plant was 
British and American. They were making boring machines 
and presses. It is now a question whether through relax- 
ing our law requiring a list of strategic goods we will help 
them again. 

O Was what you saw Lend-Lease stuff? 

A No, they were mostly sold to the Russians during the 
1930s. As another example, it was an American engineer, as I 
understand it, who built the Dnieper Dam. Maybe we are 
going to go through all that again and maybe overnight they 
are going to decide they don’t like us any more— and then 
where are we? We all want peaceful coexistence, but if we 
militarily weaken ourselves and strengthen them during this 
period, in a short tqne we wilj have neither peace nor 
coexistence. 

O What impression did you get in Moscow when you were 
there? Is there about to be any election campaign over there? 

A No, they are not out campaigning. Of course, you read 
in books about the press being controlled and thought being 
controlled. But it really shocked me, talking to beads of 
universities and having them tel! us that there is no reason 
to have debates in schools about Government policies, Le., 
whether it is good for the Russians to be in the United Na- 
tions or whether they did well in Geneva, or anything like 
that, because what the Government says is right— and there 
will not be any opposition to what is right-only unanimity, 
which is what they said they have in Russia. 

Q Is it a military system, essentially? 

A Yes. 

Q They’re strong for harmony? 

A Yes, and they don’t have students who believe in God, 
because religion, as a university president told us, is for back- 
ward people, and students shouldn’t be backward. 


HATRED FOR RUSSIANS- 

O Do you have a feeling that, if you walked in with your 
own interpreter, people whom you met in Central Asia might 
talk if they were sure they could talk freely? 

A Yes. The basis for my thinking is that the area was 
intensely religious 30 years ago, and the Russians have un- 
doubtedly incurred deep hatred from the local people for 
their attempt to destroy their religious feelings, as well as for 
the suffering that they have caused in imposing their system 
on the local inhabitants. 


Q Did you have amuabom with many people? 

A We spoke to people oo farms, hi factories, we had sev- 
eral street conferences, we spoke to teachers and Judges. We 
attended a lot of trials— we were both interested in court 
procedure. 

O How are the trials? 

A It If an entirely different system, of course, than we 
have. There is no jury, for one thing. It is a far looser system. 
There are no rules of evidence as we know them. 

Q A man k guilty mi til he k proved innocent? 

A I don’t know; but three people sit in judgment on the 
average case. 1 think they try to do what is right Admittedly, 
It is a very loose procedure. There doesn’t seem to be any 
role prohibiting the admission of hearsay evidence, for in- 
stance. The three judges— the chief judge being a lawyer and 
the other two may or may not be— just try to make a deter- 
mination of what is right and what is wrong based on all the 
facts that are presented to them. 

If nothing else, however, the lack of rules of evidence 
would make their system completely unacceptable to us in 
that a defendant would not know what to expect and the 
loose procedure leaves the door open to corruption. 

Q Have the people been trained in the law? 

A Yes. However, there is far less emphasis on that At 
Novosibirsk, which has a population of over 900,000, there 
are about 50 lawyers. So there is far less emphasis on law. 

WHERE ALL IS "PERFECT"— 

Q Are there many crimes? 

A They claim that there are not. 

Another thing that strikes you, of course, is that everything 
is so "perfect" in Russia. They claim they have no juvenile 
delinquency because the families bring up their children so 
well; that their criminal courts are being dissolved because 
there is no crime. And, of course, that is not correct because 
they gave amnesty two years ago to all criminals and they 
have had a tremendous problem with them since then. They 
say there are no automobile accidents because everybody 
drives well. The reason everybody drives well, it was explained 
to us, is because all drivers in Russia are "disciplined.” Per- 
sonally, 1 never had such harrowing drives. 

Q Who takes over when a man shoots someone? Do the 
local police move in? If it is a military area does the military 
take over? 

A The judges in Baku said they don’t have any prob- 
lems really like that— that the worst things they had was 
jealousy and some women quarreling. But, where they do, 
the militiamen -since die Revolution they call policemen 
militiamen— make the arrest. The military have jurisdiction 
in military areas and, also, most importantly in certain 
political crimes. For instance, it was a military court that 
tried Beria [Lavrenti P. Bern, former head of secret police, 
executed in 1953]. 

Q Did you ask about th t writ of habeas corpus? 

A Yes. Only one out of the approximately 30 judges we 
talked to bad heard of habeas corpus. But in fairness I might 
add they don’t have habeas corpus in most of the European 
countries. The Russians have rules that an individual is to 
be brought to trial within 20 days, and that period can 
be extended, under certain circumstances, for 5 or 10 more 
days. However— and this is the problem in Russian justice— 
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exc ep tion s on be mode in political trial* for political crimes, 
and If it is to the interest of the state you have exceptions. 
If it is a political trial it goes before a military or special 

‘Jfc are going through a period of coexistence, and it seems 
tree we ought to examine carefully and continuously the 
S mri et system of government and justice so we know the type 
of people with whom we are dealing. A trial is supposed to 
be public, but, in political cases, exceptions can also be 
made to that. This was the procedure followed during the 
vast majority of the purge trials of the 1930s— which, ex- 
cept for a very few, were conducted in secret. The trials 
of Beria and his assistants are more recent examples of 
secret trials. 

Another example, they have a procedure— and there is 
talk now of repealing it— that a hoard of the Minister of the 
Interior, who runs the secret police, can sentence a man to 
five years In a labor camp. He serves his five years and then 
comes and says, "I want to get out now, my five years are 
up.* They can then say the board has met again and decided 
he should have his sentence extended another 10 years. 
Back be goes, without a trial, and that's the end of it. 

Q Don’t they have to keep their labor force up in their 
prison camps? 

A Yes, but 1 think they can keep their labor force up in 
other ways also. You see these women who are doing heavy 
manual work in the towns and cities and just getting enough 
to keep alive— it’s not much different from being in a labor 
camp. 

"EVERYBODY IS TO WORK"— , 

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Q Where do they get them from? ‘ * 

A It is just this propaganda that everybody is to work. If 
you have children, they have these nurseries, and the child is 
taken at two months and put in a nursery , and I am sure they 
have very good care. However, the system is that everybody 
is to work for the state, The state is all— the individual, the 
family, is secondary. 

These nurseries permit the mother to go out and work for 
the state. We saw women working in a steel plant, operating 
cranes, and working on heavy construction jobs. The Russians 
are constructing a large bridge at Novosibirsk, and I have 
pictures of these women lifting these heavy beams and other 
materials. 

Q How about child labor? 

A Some of the people in these plants looked awfully young, 
and we asked about that. They said they don't take them 
under 16 years of age except under exceptional circumstances, 
and then only for a half day. In one plant they told us they 
took them at 14. 

Q Did you go into any of the jails? 

A No. 

0 Are there any jails? 

A I've seen jails— we passed them. In addition, in Ashkha- 
bad we saw a building being constructed and around it was 
all this barbed wire, and watch towers. We asked what it was, 
and they said it was "just some work going on there* 

We asked if it was a prison, and they said, "No.* So we 
asked why there was barbed wire, and they finally said, "We 
had some prisoners there a year or a year and a half ago, 
but they’ve gone.* 

1 question the accuracy of that answer because, first, the 


in Central Asia, in Moscow" 

buildings were not far sloug h construction and, second, be- 
cause Ashkhabad is stiD a doced city and it could well be 
closed because of the prosoDO* of slave labor. I wouldn’t be 
surprised if they still have e&hcr prison or slave labor working 
there. 

Q What do you mean by "dosed* cities? 

A Where foreigners weren’t allowed. 

O Did you see much drunkenness on the str e e t s ? 

A We ssw quite a bit of ft in Centra] Asia. Our guide spoke 
to us of it as a problem and asked us if we were having the 
same difficulty in the United States. 

Q In Moscow they say you never see it— 

A We saw quite a bit of it. 

Q How are the people dothed— Eastern or Western? 

A Both. 

Q What Sand of hospital faculties do they have m that 
area? 

A They seemed very good, very dean. They have a great 
number of doctors, mostly women. They have some won- 
derful theaters in that area and very good shows— operas, 
some ballet. We visited a number of the libraries. They 
have a large number of books. They don’t lend them out 
as we do in this country. You go into the library and read. 
They have only a small number of books which are avail- 
able for loan. 

Q Do people work every day? 

A Six days a week for eight hours. 

Q What do they do with their day off? 

A That I don’t know. They do go to the theater— it is very 
popular. Sports are extremely popular, basketball particularly. 

Q Are there American movies? 

A I didn’t see any, although some people in Moscow asked 
us what Deanna Durbin was doing, and also about Tancan. 

O Is Sunday the day off? 

A Not always. They work on Sundays in some of the fac* 
tones. 

Q What other sports do they have besides basketball? 

A They have what we call soccer and they call football, 
and it is also very popular. We saw a lot of small basketball 
courts. 

O Did you go to people’s homes? 

A Yes. 

Q Were they curious about you? 

A Yes* the people in stores and in the streets gathered 
around and sometimes asked questions. 

PEOPLE WERE FRIENDLY- 

Q Were they friendly? 

A Yes. 

The people were all very friendly. Some of the officials 
and some of the members of the Communist Party on occasion 
were not very friendly. But when we went into the farm areas 
—it makes me feel their intense propaganda doesn’t get 
through as effectively as it might, because, if they had been 
told for 9 or 10 years that ^e'were really their enemies and 
believed it, I don’t think they could turn that off and have 
people as genuinely friendly as they were. 

Another thing, we used to ask in each place what they most 
disliked about the United States, and what they most liked, 
and invariably the answer to the thing that they liked the 
most was our mechanical ability and know-how. 

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A They still feel we could teach Aero. They were very 
Mtptod about the agricultural delegation, and all of them ed- 
mMf&A Aat they were going to get far more out of exchange 
4 l rfvWti by U S. and Soviet farm experts] than we, because 
we were so far advanced in agriculture. 

Q What do they dislike about us? 

A The question that was most frequently raised was about 
Ae Negroes and whether they were mistreated and discrimi- 
nated against, segregated and lynched. 

Q How did they know we have any Negroes? 

A 1 expect they have been told about them by the radio 
and the press. That was the most frequent criticism and ques- 
tion. Because of the popularity of basketball and the fact that 
this question has been raised, I think it would be a wonderful 
thing if the Harlem Globetrotters [Negro professional basket- 
ball team] would consider going to Russia and touring the 
country for a month or so as they have done in the Middle 
East and other areas of the world. However, I doubt if Ae 
Russians would give them permission, as that would help 
the U. S. 

Q What about typical home life in Central Asia? 

A The average local person lives in a mud hut, with a mud 
Boor. The homes of Ae Russians in Ae area are better* 

FOR WATER: A DITCH- 

Q One family? 

A Often, families share homes or apartments. Regarding 
, sanitation, in Samarkand Ae local people get Aeir water 
r out of a ditch that flows by Ae edge of Ae road-as Aey do in 
^Teheran and a number .of ot her citi es in Ae Middle East Iel. 

jgcx uicu water ffWTT? pump.-Mrot 6f Ae pe^fT* 
in houses and apartments have to rely on outdoor sanitation 
facilities. Some of Ae farmhouses are nice, however. The 
bouses for Ae people from Ae factories are small-Ae rent 
is very little, but Ae rooms are very small, 

O Were Aey typical? 

A 1 am sure we were shown only the best farms and only 
Ae best apartments and only Ae best factories. However, we 
could see Ae more typical houses, walking along Ae streets. 
They did have some heat in the homes we went to, 

O The American farmer we interviewed here after he re- 
turned from Russia said his impression was Aat the people 
were much happier Aan he had Aought Aey would be, but 
he thought this was because, Aough Aings for them com- 
pared to Aings for our people were not nearly as good, Aey 
were much better compared to what Aey had had— 

A I agree. And I think a lot of Ae areas arc far better oft 
Aan Ae comparable areas in the Middle East. 

Q The reason Ae American fanners were impressed was 
because Ae situation wasn't as bad as Aey Aought it would 
he— pot because it compared favorably to ours— 

A There is absolutely no comparison to anything we have 
in this country— either from a material or a spiritual point of 
view. Things we take for granted in Ae United States lust 
don't exist them. 

Q Such as what? 

A Well, for instance, if you don't like working here, you 
can get up and walk downstairs and that's the end of it, or 
if you want to take a train and go to Boston, you can get on 
the train and go to Boston. You don't have to check wiA 
anybody. , 


tf you are accused of a crime in America, you are accused 
and tried hi public, and your relatives and friends will be 
Acre, and there is going to be a newspaper there and if they 
don't Bke Ae way you are treated someAing wffl be done 
about it I A ink Aat we take such things for granted. Many 
of the leaders of Asia chide Ae United States for being ao 
m a te rialis tic— I think our problem is that we take the rights 
Aat we have in this country for granted and we don't talk 
about them. 

Q We are supposed to be losing all Aose rights— do you 
think we are? 

A I don't agree wiA that, either. 

O How long were you in Moscow? 

A About five or six days. 

Q TVA you get a different feeling about Moscow than you 
had about Ae other parts of Russia? 

A I think they are better off in Moscow than Aey were in 
some of Ae Central Asian and Siberian cities. The Aing 
that struck roe, however: I went to Warsaw, and I Aink 
Warsaw is 100 per cent better off Aan any place I saw in 
Russia. 

Q Better than Moscow? 

A Yes, Ae people are far better dressed, Aere is a much 
brighter appearance, and Ae big thing is Aat Ae Polish 
people are a stubborn people. They have a natural dislike 
for Ae Russians, and Ae Communists are having a hard time 
getting through a large number of Aeir Aeories. For instance, 
you can’t get into a church on Sunday because Aey are so 
crowded. People who never went to church before are now 
going to church. 

0 Are there any Jewish colonies in the Siberian area? 

M ^ Not A at we visited.^We asked to visit Ae synagogue in 

vTiXr. vkt vfVTc^iiiert ,* ant? ' W ci c" 

told that Aere wasn’t one. When we got to Moscow, Ae 
rabbi Aere said Aat Aere was a synagogue in Stalinabad, 
so once again we were given wrong information. 

RUSSIA? "I HAD ENOUGH"— 

Q Would you like to go back to Russia again? 

A I had enough of it. 

Q Would you like to live there? 

A No. I am a firm believer in Ae capitalistic system. 

Q You think wiA all our troubles and all our friction and 
all our defects, we may be better off than Aey are? 

A I think anybody who doesn’t Aink so should take a trip 
there. * 

1 am hopeful, like everybody in Ae world, Aat what hap- 
pened at Ae Geneva Conference and what will happen at 
Ae meetings of Ae four Foreign Ministers will mean peace 
for us all. However, on Ae basis of what I saw and learned 
in Russia, I am very distrustful Aat we will get anything 
oAer Aan smiles. 

We are dealing with a Government to whom God, Ae 
family or Ae individual means noAing and whose practice 
it has been in Ae past to make promises and treaties to serve 
Aeir purposes and to break them when it has been to 
Aeir advantage. It can only be suicidal for us during 
Ais period on Ae basis of smiles to strengthen Russia and 
weaken ourselves. 

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completed visits to Russia, see page 1 00. 


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Born No vemb er 20, 1925, Boston, Massachusetts. Attended 
Harvard and University of Virginia Law School. Son of'Jdseph P. Kennedy, former 
Ambassador to England, and brother of Senator John F. Kennedy (D-Mass. ). 

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PREVIOUS MEMORANDA : 

Memoranda were previously prepared re Kennedy dated July 20 and 
November 1, 1955, which are attached /^In March, 1954, you talked with Kennedy 
concerning testimony in the Annie Lee Moss case and the Director noted, "The 
attitude of Kennedy in this matter clearly shows need for absolute circumspection in 
any conversation with him. " (121-2900-39) 

On May 13, 1955, Kennedy was guest on Dave Garroway’s television 
program and was questioned concerning the Dr. John Peters case. His comments 
concerning FBI were favorable. (121-4200-167) 

Kennedy was contacted by Bureau Agents regarding T;he testimony of 
Harry Lev before Kennedy’s Subcommittee in connection with the manufacture of 
military hats and caps. Kennedy was uncooperative and advised he would prefer 
waiting until testimony was completed. The Director noted, in jpart, "Kennedy was 
completely uncooperative until after he had squeezed all the publicity out of the ~ 
matter he could. " (46-23395-107) j „i.'W 

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On November 4, 1955, the Director met with Kennedy who 
discussed some of his impressions regarding his trip to Russia, most of 
which were covered in detail in the interview in the U. 8. News 6 World 
Report, appearing in the October 21, 1955, issue. The Director pointed 
out it was obvious Kennedy returned from Russia with a rather dim impression 
of ite economy and alleged liberties. (77-51387-25) 

Kennedy, as Chief Counsel for Senate Committee on Government 
Operations, sent a letter to the Bureau dated December 20, 1955, requesting 
examination of two documents to determine whether they were prepared on the 
same typewriter. One document dated June 27, 1955, was on the letterhead 
of A. C. Clothing Manufacturing Company, Atlantic City, New Jersey, signed 
by Herman P. Kravitz, which was addressed to Kennedy. Letter advised 
Kennedy that no improper demands had been made by personnel of A. C. Clothing 
Manufacturing Company for the award of contracts. The other document was a 
typewritten note with wording similar to letter signed by Kravitz; however, the 
second document had been torn into several pieces giving the appearance it had 
been retrieved from a wastebasket. Laboratory examination revealed both 
documents were prepared on same typewriter. Bufiles reflect Herman Kravitz 
was found guilty in U. S. District Court, New York City, December 17, 1954, 
for embezzlement of Government property and sentenced to pay a $5, 000 fine. 
Bufiles also reflect Kravitz is listed as an individual who is prohibited from 
entering into contractual relationship with the Army. (95-61979 -2) 

Kravitz is currently a witness before Kennedy's Committee. 
(Washington Post and Times Herald 4/25/56) 

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CURRENT SENATE LOBBYING HEARINGS 


Senator McClellan and Kennedy say be ealllng with relation 
I to the current hearings being conducted by the Senate Lobby Invest 1- 
j gating Conmlttee. These hearings have disclosed that salesmen for 
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana paid for telegrams sent to 
Senator Edward Thye (R.-Mlnn.) urging him to rote for the Natural 
Gas Bill. Some of these telegrams were reportedly sent without the 
authorisation of the individuals whose names were signed thereto. 
These telegrams have been characterised as "forged" by Senator 
i McClellan who la quoted in the Washington Post of 9/11/56, to the 
I effect that he did not know whether any law had been broken but 
/ that the hearings might prove e need for new legislation. Senator 
McClellan Is Chairman of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee. 


On the basis of an opinion furnished the Bureau by the 
Criminal Division in 1954 as to the applicability of the Lobbying 
Statute, It would appear that the transmission of the telegrams under 
the circumstances outlined above would not constitute a violation 
of this Act. The Criminal Division has Indicated this statute Is 
limited to persons who solicit, collect or receive contributions of 
money or other thing of value to Influence the passage or defeat 
of legislation by Congress. 


On the basis of the Information developed during the current ' N - 
hearlngs as published In the paper (which Is the only lnforamtion the A 
Bureau has concerning the bearings) It would not appear that any t 

Federal violation within the Bureau* a jurisdiction Is Involved In ^ 

I connection with the sending of these telegrams to Senator Thye. We > 
would, of course , have to secure a definite legal opinion from the 
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fffilOR INVESTIGATION OP CONTRIBUTION 
• frOR SENATOR FRANCIS CASE (B.-S.P.) 

Investigation was Instituted 2/4/ 56, at the Department *s 
request following a disclosure by Senator Francis Case who reported 
that John M. Neff had made a $2500 campaign contribution for Case 
Immediately preceding the Senate vote on the Natural Gas Bill* 

Following our Investigation a Federal Grand Jury In the 
District of Colunfcla returned a six -count Indictment on 7/24/56, 
charging Neff, Elmer Patman, attorney-lobbyist for the Superior Oil 
Company, and the Superior Oil Company Itself with violations of 
Bribery, Conspiracy and Lobbying Statutes. Trial set for 11/19/56. 

All investigation in this oase has been completed; however, 
by memorandum dated 8/2/56, the Criminal Division requested the Bureau 
to contaot the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee and secure copies 
of question and answer interviews conducted by members of the George 
Select Committee with Elmer Patman, John M. Neff and Howard Keck, 
President of the Superior Oil Company. The Criminal Division also 
requested that we secure copies of any memoranda prepared with 
reference to the interviews of these three Individuals. It Is noted 
the George Select Connittee conducted the initial inquiry concerning 
the contribution to Senator Case; this Committee Is no longer In 
existence and its records have been turned over to Its successor, 
the Senate Lobby Investigating Consult tee . 

Repeated efforts by the Washington Field Office to secure 
the documents requested by the Criminal Division have been unsuccessful 
Inasmuch as Committee representatives have Indicated the Department *s 
request could not be complied with until It was passed upon by 
Senator McClellan who was away from Washington for an extended period. 

Paul Kamerlok, Chief Investigator for the Lobby Committee, 
tele phonics lly advised the Washington Field Office this morning that 
with relation to the Department 1 a request Senator McClellan advised 
this morning that he had ohecked with the Senate Parliamentarian who 

I ruled that the Departments request could be complied with only after 
a resolution had been passed by the Senate authorising It. The 
Senate, of course, will not be in session until January and the trial 
of this case Is tentatively scheduled for 11/19/56* V® are, ©f course, 
furnishing to the Criminal Division the Infornatlon received this 
morning in this regard. 


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SENATOR JOHN LITTLE MCCLELLAN 
(DEMOCRAT - ARKANSAS) 

ROBER T FRA NCIS* KENNEDY 
MEETING WITH THE DIRECTOR 
SEPTEMBER 11, 1956 


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PURPOSE: 


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To set forth Identifying data concerning McClellan and Kennedy 
who are scheduled to meet with the Director this afternoon, September 11, 1956 



Attached is a brief memorandum concerning Kennedy and a summary 
concerning*McClellan prepared January 7, 1955. The following is pertinent 
information concerning McClellan since the date of the attached summary: 


In January, 1956, a name check was conducted for Senator McClellan 
on individual being considered for the staff of the Senate Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations. (123-5144-4) 

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Pulton Lewis, Jr. , on February 23, 1956, reported that McClellan 
had been appointed to the Senate Investigating Committee to Investigate 
Lobbying. (62-102987-2) 


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\' accompanying chart. (62-98810-731) ° 

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In March, 1956, McClellan sent to the Director the report of the 
Committee on Government Operations entitled "Organization of 
Federal Executive Departments and Agencies" togethef_with -p-f 

enclosed a 

letter from the Department to McClSfian in his-ettpacity-a s Ch airman 
of the Special Committee to Investigate Political Activities, Lobb 
and Campaign Contributions. (52-67737-11) SEP 14 1956 

The Investigative Division is preparing a separate memorandum m 
cerning the specific matter McClellan and Kennedy desire to discuss with the Directoi£ 

RECOMMENDATION: For information.^AV^ cc - Mr. Nichols 




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I *- To furnish brief identifying data concerning Kennedy, Chief Counsel 

tor the Senate Investigations Subcommittee, who, along with Senator John McClellan, 
may see the Director on this afternoon, September 11, 1956. 

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: 3 ofvyil a 

JTo It r~ 7 ~ f] ~j r Kennedy 4as born 1 1-20-25 at Boston, Ma ssa chus etts. He attended 
Harvard University and the University of Virgini a Law School. He is the son of 
Joseph P. Kennedy, former ambassador to England, and the brother of Senator 
John F. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts. 1 

PREVIOUS CONTACTS WITH THE DIRECTOR: 









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Kennedy talked with the Director apparently on personal matters 
on January 28, 1954, and February 15, 1954. He also met with the Director on 
11-3-55 and discussed his extended tour of Russia which he had made with 
Mr. Justice Douglas the previous summer. The Director noted, "It is quite 

I obvious that Mr. Kennedy has returned from Russia with a rather dim impression 
of its economy and alleged liberties. " 

Kennedy also met with the Director on 4-26-56 and discussed the 
pending appearance of Murray Chotiner. Chotiner was the campaign manager for 
Vice President Nixon in the 1952 elections, and Kennedy T s committee was con- 
sidering calling Chotiner as a witness. Kennedy also inquired of the Director 
as to whether the time had come to bring Alger Hiss before his committee. The 
Director advised Kennedy that before any such move was made it should be given 
very careful study and evaluation and thorough research should be done beforehand. 

BUREAU INVESTIGATION OF KENNEDY: 


In September, 1951, the Bureau conducted a Departmental applicant 

( investigation of Kennedy in connection with a position as attorney in the Criminal 
Division. The investigation was favorable and individuals contacted recommended 
him highly. 









the Annie Lee Moss case and the Director noted, ’’The attitude of Kennedy in this 
matter clearly shows need for absolute circumspection in any conversation with 
him.” (121-2900-39) 


On May 13, 1955, Kennedy was guest on Dave Garroway's television 
program and was questioned concerning the Dr. John Peters case. His comments 
concerning FJ3I were favorable. (121-4200-167) 

Kennedy was contacted by Bureau Agents regarding the testimony of 
Harry Lev before Kennedy’s Subcommittee in connection with the manufacture of 
military hats and caps. Kennedy was uncooperative and advised he would prefer 
waiting until testimony was completed. The Director noted, in part, "Kennedy was 
completely uncooperative until after he had squeezed all the publicity out of the 
matter he could. ” (46-23395-107) 



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Kennedy, as Chief Counsel for Senate Committee on Government 
Operations, sent a letter to the Bureau dated December 20, 1955, requesting 
examination of two documents to determine whether they were prepared on the 
same typewriter. One document dated June 27, 1955, was on the letterhead 
of A. C. Clothing Manufacturing Company, Atlantic City, New Jersey, signed 
by Herman P. Kravitz, which was addressed to Kennedy. Letter advised Kennedy 
that no improper demands had been made by personnel of A. C. Clothing 
Manufacturing Company for the award of contracts. The other document was a 
typewritten note with wording similar to letter signed by Kravitz; however, the 
second document had been torn into several pieces giving the appearance it had 
been retrieved from a wastebasket. Laboratory examination revealed both 
documents were prepared on same typewriter. Bufiles reflect Herman Kravits 
was found guilty in U. S. District Court, New York City, December 17, 1954, 
for embezzlement of Government property and sentenced to pay a $5,000 fine. 
Bufiles also reflect Kravitz is listed as an individual who is prohibited from 
entering into contractual relationship with the Army. (95-61979-2) 

In January, 1956, Kennedy called the Bureau and expressed concern 
that a Bureau official had contacted Minority Counsel Juliana rather than himself 
concerning a matter of official business. The Director stated as follows: ”1 
think Kennedy is basically right. H. ” 



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Bulet of 9-7-56 to Kennedy expressed the Director's thank a for 
Kennedy's note of 8-31-56 and his commendatory remarks regarding the Bureau's 
work in connection with the Brink's, Weinberger, and Riesel cases. 

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY, CHIEF COUNSEL, 

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ACTIVITIES IN THE LABOR OR MANAGEMENT FIELD 


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April 22, 1958 
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Mr. R obert F. Kennedy 
ChieFCounsel 

Select Committee on Improper Activities 
in the Labor or Management Field 
U. S. Senate 
Washington, D. C. 

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the 1958 Lantern Award, and I wanted to drop you this note to 
extend my heartiest congratulations. I was certainly pleased “ 
that you were afforded this recognition which is richly deserved. 

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May 13, 1958 


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Thank you very much for your kind note 
regarding the Lamp Award in Boston. 

I was highly honored - particularly be- 
cause I had the privilege of following 
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Sincerely, 


Kennedy 


Mr. J. Edgar Hoover 
Director 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 
Department of Justice 
Washington, D. C.